著者

眞嶋 俊造

出版者

北海道大学大学院文学研究科応用倫理研究教育センター

雑誌

応用倫理 (ISSN:18830110)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, pp.16-27, 2013-10-01

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The purpose of this article is to examine the following two questions: one is, why, at what point terrorism cannot morally be justified; the other is, all kinds of acts of terrorism are morally impermissible under any circumstances. This paper is divided into three sections. In the first section, I examine the definition of terrorism and discuss the first question. In the second section, I examine (im)morality of assassination as a means of anti-government terrorism. In the third section, I explore the moral (im)permissibility of assassination by reference to the framework of just war theory in order to consider the second question. I conclude by arguing that there is no such morally justifiable assassination in reality although we can construct an ideal type of just assassination and argue moral permissibility of assassination at a theoretical level.